Satellite timelapse photography

Now here is a cool byproduct of having hundreds (or thousands) of satellites orbiting the earth.

Made possible by Time Magazine and Google, the website below allows anyone to zoom in on Landsat images (which look like the images you would see on Google Earth), and use a scroll bar to advance through time.

A sample image from the site, showing an aerial view of the comparatively-undeveloped Austin in 1984.